ANGELICO Fra

Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1387-1455 Italian painter, illuminator and Dominican friar. He rose from obscure beginnings as a journeyman illuminator to the renown of an artist whose last major commissions were monumental fresco cycles in St Peter's and the Vatican Palace, Rome. He reached maturity in the early 1430s, a watershed in the history of Florentine art. None of the masters who had broken new ground with naturalistic painting in the 1420s was still in Florence by the end of that decade. The way was open for a new generation of painters, and Fra Angelico was the dominant figure among several who became prominent at that time, including Paolo Uccello, Fra Filippo Lippi and Andrea del Castagno. By the early 1430s Fra Angelico was operating the largest and most prestigious workshop in Florence. His paintings offered alternatives to the traditional polyptych altarpiece type and projected the new naturalism of panel painting on to a monumental scale. In fresco projects of the 1440s and 1450s, both for S Marco in Florence and for S Peter's and the Vatican Palace in Rome, Fra Angelico softened the typically astringent and declamatory style of Tuscan mural decoration with the colouristic and luminescent nuances that characterize his panel paintings. His legacy passed directly to the second half of the 15th century through the work of his close follower Benozzo Gozzoli and indirectly through the production of Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. Fra Angelico was undoubtedly the leading master in Rome at mid-century, and had the survival rate of 15th-century Roman painting been greater, his significance for such later artists as Melozzo da Forli and Antoniazzo Romano might be clearer than it is.


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ANGELICO  Fra Sepulchring of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian oil


Sepulchring of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
Painting ID::  52229
Sepulchring of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
1438-40 Tempera on wood, 37 x 45 cm
1438-40_Tempera_on_wood,_37_x_45_cm
   
   
     

ANGELICO  Fra The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian oil


The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
Painting ID::  52230
The Healing of Justinian by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
1438-40 Tempera on wood, 37 x 45 cm
1438-40_Tempera_on_wood,_37_x_45_cm
   
   
     

ANGELICO  Fra St Lawrence Receives the Treasures of the Church oil


St Lawrence Receives the Treasures of the Church
Painting ID::  52240
St Lawrence Receives the Treasures of the Church
1447-50 Fresco, 271 x 205 cm
1447-50_Fresco,_271_x_205_cm
   
   
     

ANGELICO  Fra The Stoning of St Stephen oil


The Stoning of St Stephen
Painting ID::  52251
The Stoning of St Stephen
1447-49
1447-49
   
   
     

ANGELICO  Fra St Lawrence on Trial oil


St Lawrence on Trial
Painting ID::  52325
St Lawrence on Trial
1447-49 Fresco, 271 x 473 cm
1447-49_Fresco,_271_x_473_cm
   
   
     

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     ANGELICO Fra
     Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1387-1455 Italian painter, illuminator and Dominican friar. He rose from obscure beginnings as a journeyman illuminator to the renown of an artist whose last major commissions were monumental fresco cycles in St Peter's and the Vatican Palace, Rome. He reached maturity in the early 1430s, a watershed in the history of Florentine art. None of the masters who had broken new ground with naturalistic painting in the 1420s was still in Florence by the end of that decade. The way was open for a new generation of painters, and Fra Angelico was the dominant figure among several who became prominent at that time, including Paolo Uccello, Fra Filippo Lippi and Andrea del Castagno. By the early 1430s Fra Angelico was operating the largest and most prestigious workshop in Florence. His paintings offered alternatives to the traditional polyptych altarpiece type and projected the new naturalism of panel painting on to a monumental scale. In fresco projects of the 1440s and 1450s, both for S Marco in Florence and for S Peter's and the Vatican Palace in Rome, Fra Angelico softened the typically astringent and declamatory style of Tuscan mural decoration with the colouristic and luminescent nuances that characterize his panel paintings. His legacy passed directly to the second half of the 15th century through the work of his close follower Benozzo Gozzoli and indirectly through the production of Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. Fra Angelico was undoubtedly the leading master in Rome at mid-century, and had the survival rate of 15th-century Roman painting been greater, his significance for such later artists as Melozzo da Forli and Antoniazzo Romano might be clearer than it is.

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